Samuel Price
Samuel Price | |
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United States Senator from West Virginia | |
In office August 26, 1876 – January 26, 1877 | |
Appointed by | John J. Jacob |
Preceded by | Allen T. Caperton |
Succeeded by | Frank Hereford |
5th Lieutenant Governor of Virginia | |
In office 1864–1865 | |
Preceded by | Robert L. Montague |
Succeeded by | Leopold C. P. Cowper |
Member of the Virginia House of Delegates | |
In office 1834-1836 | |
Personal details | |
Born | Fauquier County, Virginia | July 28, 1805
Died | February 25, 1884 Lewisburg, West Virginia | (aged 78)
Political party | Democratic |
Samuel Price (July 28, 1805 – February 25, 1884) was Virginia lawyer and politician, who helped to establish the state of
Early and family life
Born in Fauquier County, Virginia, Price moved with his parents to Preston County (now in West Virginia) in 1815. He received a preparatory training and read law.
Career
Admitted to the Virginia
Voters elected Price to the Virginia House of Delegates, where he represented Nicholas County part time from 1834 to 1836, then moved to Wheeling, Virginia (now West Virginia) in 1836 and to Lewisburg, Virginia (now West Virginia) in 1838. He was prosecuting attorney for Braxton County from 1836 to 1850 and represented Braxton County in the Virginia House of Delegates from 1847 to 1850 and again in 1852.
Price was a delegate to the Virginia Constitutional Convention of 1850, and the Virginia Secession Convention of 1861 where he voted against secession. In 1863 he was elected the fifth Lieutenant Governor of Virginia and served until the close of the Civil War.
He was a delegate to the
Death and legacy
In 1884. Price died in Lewisburg. Interment was in the Stuart Burying Ground at Stuart Manor, near Lewisburg.
The
External links
- West Virginia & Regional History Center at West Virginia University, Samuel Price, Lawyer and Politician, Papers
References
- ^ "Congress slaveowners", The Washington Post, 2022-01-19, retrieved 2022-01-23
- ^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
- United States Congress. "Samuel Price (id: P000530)". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress.